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Céline Dion authorised biopic The Power of Love announced for 2020

The singer has granted the rights for her songs to be used in the film, which will star and be directed by French actor Valérie Lemercier

Céline Dion is the subject of a forthcoming biopic, The Power of Love, slated for release in 2020. French star Valérie Lemercier will direct the film and play the singer. Dion, 50, has authorised the project and granted the rights to her songs, Variety reports.

The Power of Love will follow Dion from her childhood in Quebec in the 1960s, where she was the youngest of 14 children in what she has described as a poor but happy family, to her teenage rise to fame.

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